This is something that has always drove me nuts also on the AX Center. It is also similar to the how th I/O layout shows upon the AVID MTRX Studio. For the AX Center it would be much better for the I/O cards to always be the starting I/O paths or priority. If I am wiring up a system and I have expansion cards those cards will either go to patch or hardware starting at channel 1. Curious @Jon if you can elaborate on why this is not possible? Is this something that could possibly be looked at in the future as a firmware update with having DAD to have to redesign the AX Center?